Preparing for a new growing season | 100% food self-sufficiency | Episode 13

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About This Series
Formerly known as 'No Milk Today', this channel is dedicated to a total food self-sufficiency project. Max aims to spend a year from September 2022 to September 2023 only eating and drinking food produced on his small farm in the South West of England - and only allowing himself two imports - salt and tap water.
This series was adapted for BBC Radio 4, ‘Growing Solo’, available from April 22nd 2024
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001...
Produced by Tessa Browne
About Max
Max Cotton is a British television journalist who has worked as a reporter at BBC News in Westminster since 1995. In 2012 he left the world of politics to spend more time on his smallholding in Glastonbury but still occasionally writes and presents news and documentaries on Radio 4. He is best known for his work on BBC1’s Politics Show between 2003 and 2012.
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Music performed by Harry Cotton:
California Dreamin' - The Mamas and the Papas (Cover)
No milk today - Hermin's Hermits (Cover)
Detectorists Theme Song - Johnny Flynn (Cover)

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23 июл 2024

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Комментарии : 21

@iamlukekelly Год назад

Great to have another episode! Tessa Browne doing a fantastic job with the filming - some beautiful shots at the end.

@MaxGrowingSolo Год назад

isn’t she?! Thanks so much for taking the time to comment. it means a lot. Max

@deepintheundergrowth3877 Год назад

Yay a new episode!

@MaxGrowingSolo Год назад

Woow!

@treecutter Год назад

Just found your channel ,what a breath of fresh air, I have watched your other videos now and I am impressed I'm practing selfsufficiency as best I can watching you is a great inspiration thanks

@MaxGrowingSolo Год назад

Well we are all in it together! Thanks for taking the time. Max

@heidicouture2584 Год назад

Glad to see you are carrying on Max! I hope you enjoyed that sacred Easter Mash! H x😸

@englishhomestead Год назад

Such a wet late year! You're not alone in felling disheartened about growing. Great episode as always.

@MaxGrowingSolo Год назад

Ah thanks Kev. you are such a consistent friend to this channel. it really means a lot. Weather awful. Wheat in - just - but still no main crop potatoes as the wet soil keeps on jamming up the ridging plough. hope all is ok with you and yours. Max

@hhwippedcream Год назад

Seasoned grape prunings make an excellent barbecue smoke. The barrels from the aging process do as well...

@MaxGrowingSolo Год назад

They do. I burn mine as I go along as I like the French expression chariot du feu. or is it de feu? Well I like having a fire as I go….thanks for taking the time to comment. Max

@hhwippedcream Год назад

@@MaxGrowingSolo Barbeque economics should power the agricultural system as evidenced by the fabulous harvest episode.

@rubygray7749 Год назад

What a joy to see another episode.

@MaxGrowingSolo Год назад

It’s a pleasure. Thanks so much for watching. Sending my best. Max

@rubygray7749 Год назад

It's great to see hopeful spring weather, and garden plans being started. And finding buried treasure! Such a blessing. Mashed potatoes! Maybe you should grow Sarpo Mira potatoes this year? The most blight resistant variety, and the heaviest producer. Have you watched the potato reveals on Allotment Diary? He grows phenomenal crops of potatoes in 30 litre pots stacked together in about 4 square metres. It's potato porn for self supporters!

@MaxGrowingSolo Год назад

I’ve got Deseree as main crop this year and some Maris Baird as my first earlies. My issue with the veg is that I’m definitely not organised enough. keeping my self in bread and dairy takes up loads of time. Must do better. Thanks for being there. Max

@rubygray7749 Год назад

@@MaxGrowingSolo Feeding oneself is certainly a worthy occupation. Barring frost, I found no dig potatoes to be a tremendously rewarding venture this season. I must have grown about 200 kg, many tiddlers which are still quite edible, and lots of large ones. Enough to keep body and soul together for the year, and supplement the hens' grain. I've bought several large round bales (300 kg each) of rain damaged straw from a farmer for $20 each. It made simple work of mulching the spuds with a pitchfork. Then nothing to do for 3 months until treasure hunting time. Do I detect a hint of a second season of No Milk Today? I do hope so! I am working towards producing a much greater proportion of my diet from my land. It seems criminal to have this small farm, then buy groceries.

@oddthreadz2789 Год назад

Another good one. I feel your pain with everything being too wet, here in Scotland we are still getting hard frost's and my tunnel was shredded again in the winter storms so l cannot even start there until we re build it again. Enjoy those tatties and hopefully you saved some leeks to go with it.

@MaxGrowingSolo Год назад

I have SO many leeks we decided to plough in the rest as they would go to seed before being eaten. I do have - a few new season greens - mainly volunteer mustard in the polytunnel and some salad and spinach. SO sorry to hear about your tunnel - we lost ours last year in Storm Unis. The spuds were really nice. All the best, chin up with this weather. Max